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...land on Terra Caelestis [Heaven], with your pillow and chamberpot, you are made to room not with Shakespeare or even Longfellow, but with guitarists and cretins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prospero's Progress | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...Tight Rope. Born in the Hamburg slums shortly before the start of World War I. Schlieker started kicking his way ahead during the Depression, became in rapid succession a farmhand, a clerk in a Nazi law court, a chamberpot salesman in Haiti. Back in Germany in ,1938, Willy caught the attention of the Ruhr's huge Vereinigte Stahlwerke, which made him their lobbyist to the Nazi government. So well did Party Member Schlieker lobby that he was eventually taken into the government as chief of the entire steel industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Wily Willy | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...both cases (he played a corpse on the gallows at midnight and an explorer in an Egyptian tomb) it was too dark to tell whether he was really any good. Then, all at once he was expelled. One of the reasons: late one night he emptied a chamberpot out the dormitory window, saw too late that there was somebody passing below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tiger in the Reeds | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...sagging cot, a few dingy chairs, a foot locker, and a small table on which rested a half-used box of Kleenex, a bottle of ink, and a key ring with three keys. The only spot of color in the drab room was supplied by a bright blue enamel chamberpot under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Dervish in Pin-Striped Suit | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...Jerry Colonna Show (Mon. 8 p.m., ABC-TV), thus far unsponsored, originates in California but owes more to Minsky's than to Hollywood, as Colonna is propelled with quivering mustache, freewheeling eyes and hog-calling tenor through a series of burlesque skits. As a barber, he uses a chamberpot for a shaving mug; on a rocket to the moon, he nuzzles a blonde stowaway; as a TV repairman, he pulls a battered corset from a TV set, crying: "Your condenser is weak!" Best example of Colonna's Klaxon charm: his screech-voiced assault on the popular song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

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